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10. This Is Spinal Tap, 1984
The second drummer drowned, their album sleeve could be none more black, they're big in Japan. Spinal Tap: the funniest, non-existent rock band - ever. It's difficult to imagine now that when This Is Spinal Tap arrived in Britain, there was only a nagging suspicion that the band whose rockumentary this was couldn't quite be for real. However, since then, This Is Spinal Tap has become legendary. Hilarious, bitingly perceptive and cinematically assured.
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The second drummer drowned, their album sleeve could be none more black, they're big in Japan. Spinal Tap: the funniest, non-existent rock band - ever. It's difficult to imagine now that when This Is Spinal Tap arrived in Britain, there was only a nagging suspicion that the band whose rockumentary this was couldn't quite be for real. However, since then, This Is Spinal Tap has become legendary. Hilarious, bitingly perceptive and cinematically assured.
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9. There's Something About Mary, 1998
Men having trouble with their zips, unusual hair gel – the Farrelly Brothers are at it again in this anarchic, bad-taste comedy that has the dazzling Cameron Diaz as the object of geeky Ben Stiller's affections. Unable to forget his teenage object of lust, Stiller hires a private detective to track her down – who promptly falls for her too. Gross-out shenanigans ensue, most notoriously in a scene where Mary mistakes semen for hair gel. Like the rest of the film, the scene is puerile, politically incorrect, rib-achingly funny and strangely insightful.
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Men having trouble with their zips, unusual hair gel – the Farrelly Brothers are at it again in this anarchic, bad-taste comedy that has the dazzling Cameron Diaz as the object of geeky Ben Stiller's affections. Unable to forget his teenage object of lust, Stiller hires a private detective to track her down – who promptly falls for her too. Gross-out shenanigans ensue, most notoriously in a scene where Mary mistakes semen for hair gel. Like the rest of the film, the scene is puerile, politically incorrect, rib-achingly funny and strangely insightful.
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8. Blazing Saddles, 1974
Mel Brooks' raucous spoof of the western summons up just about every one of its stock clichés for a merciless parodying in this classic film. Blazing Saddles balances an irreverent backslap at Hollywood prejudice with a tireless, irresistible vulgarity, and the humour zips from harrumphing slapstick to highbrow satire.
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Mel Brooks' raucous spoof of the western summons up just about every one of its stock clichés for a merciless parodying in this classic film. Blazing Saddles balances an irreverent backslap at Hollywood prejudice with a tireless, irresistible vulgarity, and the humour zips from harrumphing slapstick to highbrow satire.
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7. American Pie, 1999
Sticky, messy and downright dirty, this is a teen comedy that actually reflects the lives of teenagers. The first high school movie to feature a teenager getting intimate with apple-filled pastry, this beltingly vulgar movie amply demonstrates how to be crude, lewd and very funny.
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Sticky, messy and downright dirty, this is a teen comedy that actually reflects the lives of teenagers. The first high school movie to feature a teenager getting intimate with apple-filled pastry, this beltingly vulgar movie amply demonstrates how to be crude, lewd and very funny.
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6. Monty Python And The Holy Grail 1975
The Holy Grail sees the team donning their suits of armour and clippety-clopping their coconuts across the country in search of Christ's Goblet. As well as being near to saturation point with absurd jokes and themes, the film also makes way for Terry Gilliam's fantastic animations, making this very nearly un-made shoestring feature a pure piece of Python history, in every sense of the word.
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The Holy Grail sees the team donning their suits of armour and clippety-clopping their coconuts across the country in search of Christ's Goblet. As well as being near to saturation point with absurd jokes and themes, the film also makes way for Terry Gilliam's fantastic animations, making this very nearly un-made shoestring feature a pure piece of Python history, in every sense of the word.
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